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Chicken-killing Newcastle disease prompts widespread quarantines in Southern California
About a million birds have died so far.
By Martin Wisckol | mwisckol@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: February 27, 2019 at 3:29 pm | UPDATED: February 27, 2019 at 3:34 pm
With virulent Newcastle disease killing a growing number of Southern California chickens, state Veterinarian Annette Jones announced Wednesday a poultry quarantine for all of Los Angeles County and large portions of San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
The highly contagious respiratory virus is nearly always fatal for all poultry and has most affected chickens in the current outbreak. Though the number of infections went down for several months after the disease was identified, in May, the number of cases has increased since November.
In addition to the latest quarantines, communities in the three counties continue to have mandatory euthanasia decrees for all poultry. With past and currently planned euthanasia orders, the disease will have led to the death of 1 million birds. The numbers of birds euthanized has doubled since Jan. 25.
?There are no human health concerns provided that any meat or eggs are cooked properly,? according to Wednesday?s announcement by the state Department of Food and Agriculture...
Chicken-killing Newcastle disease prompts widespread quarantines in Southern California
About a million birds have died so far.
By Martin Wisckol | mwisckol@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: February 27, 2019 at 3:29 pm | UPDATED: February 27, 2019 at 3:34 pm
With virulent Newcastle disease killing a growing number of Southern California chickens, state Veterinarian Annette Jones announced Wednesday a poultry quarantine for all of Los Angeles County and large portions of San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
The highly contagious respiratory virus is nearly always fatal for all poultry and has most affected chickens in the current outbreak. Though the number of infections went down for several months after the disease was identified, in May, the number of cases has increased since November.
In addition to the latest quarantines, communities in the three counties continue to have mandatory euthanasia decrees for all poultry. With past and currently planned euthanasia orders, the disease will have led to the death of 1 million birds. The numbers of birds euthanized has doubled since Jan. 25.
?There are no human health concerns provided that any meat or eggs are cooked properly,? according to Wednesday?s announcement by the state Department of Food and Agriculture...
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